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Bog blog: Down the toilet with the Hillary Clinton campaign

Full coverage of the US Elections 2008Well, we all know that Hillary Clinton doesn't love the press corps. On Monday morning in Toledo, Ohio she was slamming us for giving Barack Obama an easy ride. On Monday afternoon our "filing centre" in Austin, Texas turned out to be a high school locker room, complete with urinals and authentic odours. We were in there for five hours and it also served as a television room and restaurant on the other side of the room were stacked our boxed meals and packets of beef jerky.

Does the Clinton campaign view our work as toilet journalism?

Cue lots of schoolboy jokes about Larry Craig, wide stances, toilet journalism, yellow journalism, stall tactics, too many leaks and a campaign not flush with success. Clinton spokesman Doug Hattaway insisted it was not a comment on the quality of our journalism.

The 50-plus-strong Clinton press corps currently includes such hallowed names as Tina Brown and Gail Sheehy in our number but they gamely took the unglamourous facilities in their stride.

Sheehy even gave a television interview beside the urinals. And here's the proof in case you don't believe me.